Affiliate Faculty Alphabetical Listing
| Name |
Affiliate Department |
Research Interests |
Geographic Expertise |
| Spanish linguistics |
Mexico |
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| Marine economics |
General |
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| Resource policy and economics |
General |
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| Attitudes and social cognition |
South America |
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| Latin American colonial history |
Mexico |
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| Art history, conceptual art |
General |
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| Amaya-Burns, Alba |
Tropical medicine, public health |
El Salvador, Nicaragua |
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| Popular politics and citizen empowerment, development of democracy |
Central America, Argentina |
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| Environmental law, water law, protection of biological diversity |
Central America |
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| Spanish American literature and literary theory |
Argentina |
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| Gender and sexuality, culture and political economy |
Peru, Nicaragua, Cuba |
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| Applied anthropology, public health |
Caribbean |
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| Land tenure, cadastral and land information systems, GIS |
Central and South America, Caribbean |
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| Colonial America, Native Americans |
Borderlands |
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| Beilock, Richard |
Transportation, marketing |
General |
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| Programming languages, transfer of technology |
Costa Rica, Venezuela |
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| Anthropological methods, literacy |
Mexico |
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| GIS and RS applications in environmental systems, landscape dynamics |
South America |
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| Primate evolution, ecology and social behavior |
Suriname |
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Bowen, Walter |
IFAS International Programs |
Agronomy, agriculture economics |
Andes, Brazil |
| Conservation biology, behavioral ecology, landscape ecology |
Southern Cone |
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| Evolution of sexual communication in fireflies |
Caribbean, Jamaica |
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| Limnology, paleolimnology |
Mesoamerica, Caribbean |
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| Percussion |
Caribbean |
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| Visual and applied anthropology |
Mexico, Central America |
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| Tropical ecology |
Brazil |
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| Hispanic linguistics, Spanish second language acquisition |
General |
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Environmental economics, regional and urban economics |
Mexico |
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| Forest economics and management |
General |
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| Caribbean bibliographic resources |
Caribbean, Cuba |
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| Bilingual education, ESL language and literacy development |
Latino Studies |
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| Forest soils, root/soil interactions, forest management |
Brazil |
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| Ethnomusicology, music history |
Brazil |
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| International trade/development, Caribbean agro-economic systems |
Caribbean |
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| Bilingual education, language policy, and program evaluation |
Latino Studies |
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| Archaeology, interactions among Native American, Hispanic and African sectors of colonial communities |
Caribbean |
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| Zooarchaeology |
Andes, Caribbean |
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| Paleobotany |
General |
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| International economics, economic development |
General |
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Music criticism and analysis |
Brazil |
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| Reforestation, urban forestry |
Brazil, Peru, Ecuador |
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| Environmental archaeology |
Mesoamerica |
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| Population biology and conservation ecology, butterflies and land snails |
General |
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| Urban forestry |
Chile |
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| Descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, Creole studies |
Caribbean |
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| International trade policy, agro-economics |
Caribbean |
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Agricultural labor, child labor |
Latino Studies |
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| Econometrics, labor economics, monetary economics |
Mexico |
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| Climate-based agricultural risk management applications, crop growth modeling |
Brazil |
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| Dance ethnography, choreography |
General |
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| Colonial Caribbean history, slavery |
Caribbean |
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| Archaeology, ethnohistory, social organization |
Mesoamerica |
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| Spanish language instruction |
General |
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| Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian narrative |
Brazil |
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| International business and trade law, international litigation, comparative law |
Mexico |
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| Historic preservation |
Central America |
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| Ethnic diparities in health, cultural dimensions of psychosocial stress |
Puerto Rico |
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| Medical anthropology |
Mexico |
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| Comprehensive problem solving in natural systems and urban landscapes |
Central America |
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| Irrigation and water management; plant water requirements |
Central and South America |
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| Water law, environmental law, environmentally sensitive ecosystems |
Central America |
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| Jaqi family of languages, language and culture, language and gender |
Andean South America, Peru, Bolivia, Chile |
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| African diaspora, social inequality, human rights, political economy |
Caribbean |
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| Gender and culture in agriculture and nature resource management |
Colombia |
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| Ecology and conservation of bats |
Costa Rica |
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| Chemical ecology |
Peru |
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| Haitian Creole instruction and research |
Haiti |
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| Archeology of non-western cultures of the humid tropics; historical anthropology |
Brazil |
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| Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, feminist theory, feminist art history |
General |
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| Edipemiology |
Mexico |
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| International human rights, issues of gender/race and Latinas/nos in the law |
General |
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| International development/farming systems, production economics |
General |
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| Human dimensions of natural resource management, environmental education |
General |
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| International relations, peacekeeping, democracy |
Peru |
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| Spanish American narrative, Spanish for bilinguals |
Caribbean |
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| Systematics |
General |
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| Photojournalism |
Cuba, General |
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| Archaeology, economic and ecological anthropology, horticultural societies |
Caribbean |
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| Cultural and political ecology, land use land cover change |
Mexico |
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| Natural resources and environmental economics |
General |
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Kleiman, Valeria |
Chemistry |
Energy transfer |
Argentina |
| Urban planning |
South America |
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| Tuberculosis, general pulmonary disease, mycobacterial infections |
Haiti, Dominican Republic |
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| Impact of media content on society from cross-cultural perspective |
Mexico, Brazil |
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| Discourse and pragmatics, second language acquisition and language learning, and academic literacy |
Mexico, Colombia |
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| Lord, Gillian |
Second language acquisition, L2 phonetics and phonology, technology in language education |
Mexico |
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| Bibliographic resources for Latin American Studies |
General |
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| Design, international planning |
Brazil |
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| Vertebrate paleontology |
Bolivia |
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| Colonial Latin American history |
Mesoamerica |
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| Economic development, land use management |
Brazil |
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| Comparative law, critical race theory, LatCrit theory |
Puerto Rico, Latino Studies |
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| Transnational migration, gender |
Brazil |
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| Communication theory, international and ethnic public relations |
Dominican Republic, Colombia, Latinos |
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| Musical theatre |
Latino Studies |
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| Climatology, hurricanes, climate and change |
Caribbean |
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| International trade |
Caribbean |
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| Archaeology, colonial period European-aboriginal relations in the New World |
Caribbean |
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| Archaeology, Mayan codices |
Mesoamerica |
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| Florida constitutional law, environmental law, legislative drafting |
Brazil |
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| Global corporate public relations, public relations practices and education |
Venezuela, General |
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Moriena, Gustavo |
Chemistry |
Argentina |
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| Languages across the curriculum and for the professions |
Mexico |
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| Archaeology of Andean complex civilizations |
Andean South America |
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| Agricultural finance, agricultural policy, quantitative methods |
Mexico |
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| Tropical ecology |
General |
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| Applied anthropology, linguistics, ecology |
Caribbean |
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Nagan, Winston |
Law |
International human rights |
Ecuador |
| Agroforesty, international forestry |
General |
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| International finance and capital markets, international asset pricing |
General |
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| Modern Latin American history, intellectual history |
Brazil |
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| Systematics and ecology of amphibians and reptiles |
Central America |
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| Assessment and intervention methods for children and youth, school psychology |
Costa Rica |
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| Cultural anthropology, displaced people, disasters |
Andean South America |
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| Archaeology, historical ecology |
Andes, Amazonia |
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| Women’s studies, social movements, race and ethnic relations, Latino/as in the U.S. |
Mexico |
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| Constitutional law, employment law, race and race relations |
Latino Studies |
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| Design |
Cuba, Caribbean |
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| Luso-Brazilian studies and literature |
Brazil |
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| Demography, environmental sociology, sociology of development |
Brazil |
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| Christianity in Latin America, social ethics, environmental ethics |
Central America |
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| Romance historical linguistics |
General |
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| Bibliographic resources for Latin American Studies |
General |
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| Land management |
Central America |
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| Early modern history of science, science and exploration |
General |
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| Biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, wetlands management |
General |
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| International trade law, dispute settlement, trade and the environment |
General |
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| Ecology |
South America |
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| Radonovich, Lewis |
Occupational and internal medicine |
Brazil |
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| Political advertising, international and cross-cultural advertising |
General |
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| Graphic design, relationship between design, culture and identity |
General |
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| Anglophone Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies |
Caribbean |
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| Agricultural cooperatives, international development, decision support systems |
Central America, Cuba |
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Environmental law |
Costa Rica |
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| Postharvest physiology and technology |
Brazil |
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| Soil fertility |
General |
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| Avian ecology and conservation |
General |
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| International health, sexually transmitted disease prevention and control |
Central and South Americas |
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| Biodiversity and agriculture |
Brazil, Peru |
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| 19th century Spanish-American literature |
General |
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| Climate change, remote sensing, land use, land cover change |
Honduras, Guatemala |
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| Quantitative methods, citrus marketing and trade |
General |
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| Gender and development, entrepreneurs in the global market |
Caribbean |
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Psychiatric and mental health nursing |
Brazil, Latino Studies |
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| Popular and classical flute of Latin America |
Ecuador, Chile, Argentina |
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| Ecology, behavior and conservation of mammalian carnivores |
General |
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| Sustainable agriculture |
Central America |
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| Modern Latin American history, anthropology |
Andean South America |
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| Design, history, preservation, theory |
Caribbean |
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| Architectural and interior design history, environmental behavior |
General |
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| Multicultural counseling |
Latino Studies |
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| Religion in Latin America, theory and method, religion among U.S. Latinos |
Brazil, Central America |
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| Visual, historical, and cultural studies, photography |
Brazil |
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| Cognitive and affective processing of messages, international advertising |
Mexico |
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| Environmental law |
Brazil |
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| Hydrology, climatology, quantitative methods |
South America |
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Weech-Maldonado, Robert |
Health Services Research, Management & Policy |
Factors affecting access and cost of healthcare for vulnerable populations |
Latino Studies |
| Forest genetics |
Chile, Brazil |
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| Molecular systematics of orchids and euglossine bees |
Panama, South America |
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| Religion and politics, democratization, social movements, transnational migration |
Central America, Peru |
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| Indigenous religions, ethnohistory, Indian policy |
Brazil |
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| Tropical forestry |
Brazil, Peru |
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| Latino sociology, demography of health and aging in minority populations |
General |